Appreciate America: Credit Memorandum to Mr. & Mrs. American Citizen
Two hands hold open a ledger-style 'credit memorandum' addressed to Mr. & Mrs. American Citizen. It lists six freedoms (job, speech, ballot, worship, education, assembly) as credits to an account. The tell is the bookkeeping metaphor applied to broad virtue words, which asks readers to value their privileges rather than to do a specific act.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Appreciate America, Inc. (Chicago)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Appreciate America, Inc. (Chicago). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-414B (NAID 513867).
Text on the object
APPRECIATE ★ AMERICA CREDIT MEMORANDUM TO: MR. & MRS. AMERICAN CITIZEN EVERYWHERE IN THE U.S.A. CREDIT YOUR ACCOUNT WITH: FREEDOM TO SELECT YOUR JOB FREEDOM OF SPEECH FREEDOM OF THE BALLOT FREEDOM OF WORSHIP FREEDOM OF EDUCATION FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY Place Your own value on these Privileges RED FOR COURAGE WHITE FOR HONOR BLUE FOR JUSTICE [imprint:] COPYRIGHT, 1941, APPRECIATE AMERICA INC., 130 NO. WELLS ST., CHICAGO, ILL.
